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good morning and welcome back to the

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johnson space center for today's mission

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status briefing on atlantis flight with

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us today is the sts-132 lead space

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shuttle flight director mike sarafin who

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just completed his final shift on

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console

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mike thanks rob

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today the crew of atlantis is returning

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from the international space station on

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their 11th day of the mission

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we performed the normal inspection

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procedures to mitigate the orbital

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debris risk associated with the any

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space flight

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the crew performed the late inspection

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using the pan and tilt unit that we had

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problems with earlier than in the

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mission and we've got a brief video clip

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that i can show you the uh

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of the inspection in progress earlier

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if we could roll the video you can see

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some of the reinforced carbon carbon

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being viewed from the laser dynamic

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ranging imager the ldri sensor

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that sat on the pan tilt unit that we

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had problem with a problem with early in

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it worked great throughout the

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inspection a little while later on we

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flew the arm over from the starboard

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wing over the crew cabin and here you

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can see it flying over the forward

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windows and the nose and the earth in

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the background

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and the nose cap coming into view as

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part of the nose cap inspection it was a

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great survey today the crew

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exceeded the normal

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timeline here they were a couple of

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hours ahead as they proceeded through

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the inspection

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uh the

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crew finished roughly two and a half

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hours early with the inspection all of

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the imagery data is either on the ground

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or in the process of being sent to the

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ground there were a few

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periods that we missed just due to gaps

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in satellite coverage uh roughly 30

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minutes in time that crew needs to play

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back from a videotape to the ground and

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once we get all that imagery on the

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ground the analyst will review that and

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over the course of the next day

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provide a thumbs up on the heat shield

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of atlantis

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we expect an answer by the cruise midday

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meal tomorrow or

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early morning or mid morning

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and once we get that answer the final uh

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clearance for re-entry will be given

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relative to atlantis heat shield at this

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point in the mission all of the robotic

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activities are complete the orbiter boom

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sensor system and the shuttle's robotic

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arm are put away in their their landing

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configuration and the uh checkouts for

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landing will proceed tomorrow under the

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uh the guidance of entry flight director

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tony cicacci uh tomorrow the crew will

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power up one of the auxiliary power

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units that provides hydraulic power to

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the aero surfaces on atlantis and

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they'll check those out along with some

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navigational aids that are used to find

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once those are complete the crew will

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proceed into some cabin stow activities

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and atlantis will be ready to come home

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uh the crew is doing exceedingly well

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and we look forward if all goes well to

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uh the return of atlantis back to the

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kennedy space center at around 7 48

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central time on their 186th orbit and

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first landing opportunity to the kennedy

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the crew on board the international

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space station following the busy dock

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mission with the shuttle atlantis is

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later this week they'll pick up with the

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preparation activities for

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return of the half of the crew on board

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the 21 soyuz and

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those activities will proceed and

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set us up for a landing of the 21 soyuz

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crew on june the first

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shortly before landing we'll achieve a

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milestone with atlantis and she will

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cross through her 120 millionth mile

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mark on the odometer of the ship

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during her 32nd and final era plan final

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planned flight so with that i'd be happy

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to take any questions

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okay we have reporters here in houston

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also on the phone bridge let's start in

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the back with mark and we'll work around

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uh thank you mark caro for aviation week

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can you give us a kind of a status on

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the consumables that atlantis has now in

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terms of and how that translates into an

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extra day or more on orbit

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from a consumable standpoint we have

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that'll set us up for uh multiple

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uh into mission and the mission plus one

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plus two um as required so we've got a

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lot of capability on this flight a

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little bit more than we normally have uh

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the drivers there where the fact that we

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the cryo tanks that power the fuel cells

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launched on the very first attempt so

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and just to follow i just want to make

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sure i understood the the sort of

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is which of those oxygen hydrogen or

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which is the limiting consumable um it's

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mission with that type of extension

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capability and uh tony soccer will have

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some details for you on that uh when he

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does his briefing tomorrow

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robert hi robert perlman with

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collectspace.com

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do you have an early weather outlook on

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returning to kennedy space center on

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wednesday thanks

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the early weather forecast at the

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kennedy space center is typical for a

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there's a chance of low clouds and a

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chance of showers

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in the in the kennedy space center cape

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canaveral area and uh we may we may get

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lucky and land on the first attempt and

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the weather may cooperate or we may have

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to go around another day or two we'll uh

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out i know that uh tony soccer our entry

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flight director and his team will be

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watching that closely over the next

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couple of days and we'll see how that

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just how the weather plays out

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and uh just a quick follow-up on the on

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the milestone the 120 millionth

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mile mark do you know what orbit that

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in the mission and we could provide that

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peter ray would suddenly a family in

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australia um for those not familiar with

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laser dynamic range imager uh has a

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flickering light and allows us to see

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depth of field as opposed to just the uh

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gina uh gina cinceri abc news would you

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characterize for me this last inspection

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the amount of data that the that your

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just is this a round-the-clock effort to

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clear the orbiter how many people are

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involved would you just give me a little

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bit of a feel for that please

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imagery analysts and engineers that are

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review all this data and also put all

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the tiles and rcc's and gap fillers and

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through a process of what they call a

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level one and a level two review a level

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just review the video and they find any

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saying all right i see something that

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doesn't look like unblemished rcc and it

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just a stain that was on there

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just heating effects on the leading edge

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of the rcc to a potential damage zone

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survey or a level 2 review and that

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areas of interest are identified

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a day to disposition all the individual

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items and then they'll narrow it down to

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a very narrow list of areas that either

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they need to to use additional imagery

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the label they're able to clear all of

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full up review and then

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either additional tools will be applied

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to clear the vehicle knowing that there

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is a damage zone or a a blanket that's

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pulled up or a gap filler that's

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sticking out or they'll

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they'll require additional work

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some past flights if you're if you

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recall we had thermal blankets that

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needed to be

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tamped down or repaired or just put back

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into place or gap filters that were

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pulled out and those those are kind of

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the last steps and if we if we cannot

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clear the vehicle through just the

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imagery analysis and then burning down

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all the areas of interest

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anything else gina for now

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okay and before we go to the phone

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bridge mark mission control and answer

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to your question

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says the limiting consumables are

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lithium hydroxide canisters used to

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scrub the cabin atmosphere and cryogenic

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oxygen

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okay uh oh do you have a follow-up mark

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um yes i'd like to um ask if there was

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anything

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that you were tracking

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or you saw today in terms of

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apparent damage or an area of interest

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that may have come up even in the last

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few days as far as the heat

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shielding is concerned

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yeah regarding the heat shield on

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atlantis we're not tracking any problem

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areas or areas of concern obviously

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we've got a lot of imagery

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and data that we just gathered here in

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the last couple hours and we'll let the

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team go off and review that and give

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them a final say on whether or not there

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are

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inspect or

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additional work that we need to pursue

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before we're ready to bring atlantis

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home

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we'll just let that process play out and

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right now there aren't any obvious areas

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of concern

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okay on to the phone bridge first up

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marcia dunn

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yes hi um

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mike uh to echo ken ham you had some

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pretty cool words there for the crew a

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little while ago and i'm wondering it

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almost sounded like

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it's finally hitting you that this

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could well be atlantis last flight i'm

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wondering is that so and um

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could you

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maybe describe your thoughts and

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feelings as you get ready to wind up

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what could well be atlanta's last flight

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yeah that's a good question marcia um

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i've always been personally a milestone

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or a goal-driven person

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um you know when i when i was an

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engineer it was to get through

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engineering school and get my degree and

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then it was to work for nasa and then it

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was to be a

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flight controller mission control and a

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flight director and then to be a lead

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flight director and with the limited

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shuttle flights available out there it's

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it's hit me personally uh with the the

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fact that this will likely be my last

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shuttle lead um

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it is possible that we'll fly another

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flight on atlantis and we'll just have

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to see how the budget and schedule plays

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out

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given given the direction that the

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agency has and

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you know the team as a whole

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did an excellent job an outstanding job

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focusing on flying this mission planning

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it training it making sure that the

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vehicle was ready to go atlantis has

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performed virtually flawless

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throughout the

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the course of this mission the problems

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that we've had uh have been minor

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glitches uh and uh just really haven't

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given us much concern at all and uh it's

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just been a real pleasure to see all

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that play out

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and and i know you're hoping that you're

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playing to come out here for a landing

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is that have you ever done that before

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where you've actually

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come in for a shuttle landing to view

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firsthand and is it in part because this

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might be the last time atlantis lands

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uh there's a lot of reasons why i hope

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to see the sts-132 and atlanta sts-132

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crew in atlantis land

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i have had one other opportunity to go

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out to the kennedy space center and

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watch a landing and that was a previous

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flight of atlantis on sts-129 i was the

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shuttle lead for that and uh it was just

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a remarkable thing to see it was it was

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remarkable to see the ship land

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after it had been in space for uh

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roughly two weeks it was great to greet

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the crew coming off the ship and then

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just to be there in that environment to

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be on the runway with the ship on the

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runway nose gear down and it was it was

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just an incredible sight and and

403
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something to take in

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it it provides a great sense of

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accomplishment and closure just being

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there and being a part of that

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for sts-132 you know again we we spend

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about a year

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planning out these missions working with

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the shuttle and station program office

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working with the crew and just kind of

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knowing all the aspects and constraints

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associated with the mission identifying

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the key goals of the mission and how

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we're all going to make it happen and it

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takes a lot of time to make that happen

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and you bond with people and you get to

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experience a real good teamwork

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environment as part of that and uh just

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being there to greet the crew at the

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final end

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after landing in the mission uh provides

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a nice sense of closure and

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accomplishment and i very much look

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forward to that

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thank you and rob when you get that uh

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orbit for the 120 million mile mark i'd

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be interested in getting that too thanks

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will do

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irene klotz is up next

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thanks rob i don't have any questions

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uh thanks um i guess i don't have too

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much either but uh might just that's

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probably a real obvious one but um can

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you just explain a little further how

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uh it sounds like you have a whole extra

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today um and this might be more the

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entry director but um

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you have a

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full day more than you planned for going

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in

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a little bit about the added flexibility

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that gives you for

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how you would approach landing on on the

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yeah having uh additional consumables

446
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and margin does provide additional

447
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flexibility the exact landing strategy

448
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is being worked out by our entry flight

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director tony soccer and the mission

450
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management team here in a couple of

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hours

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and you'll hear those details from tony

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thanks a lot

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okay tarek malik is next

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thank you very much uh this is uh tarik

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malek from space.com and uh i used to

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follow up on marcia's question mike you

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mentioned that you were very focused on

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milestones and uh with the undocking

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yesterday that would be i would assume

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the the last chance to see atlantis

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outside the station

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i guess on as it's scheduled now

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so i'm just wondering what uh what it

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was like in the mission control room to

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see atlantis kind of back away

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at that time and then if you have

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anything special planned um

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after watching the shuttle landing in

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florida to either

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uh celebrate the the orbiter or or the

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mission team thanks

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uh seeing atlantis back away from the

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international space station

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was was just a a welcomed milestone it

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was something that provided you know a

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sense of closure to the dock mission

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that we had accomplished what we had set

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out to do

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in terms of making

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the international space station a better

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place by having been there and it it

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provided a shifting point in the in the

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mission

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to now that we've got our primary

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mission

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accomplished at the international space

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station now we can focus on getting

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atlantis and our crew home safely so uh

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it it was just a nice thing to see and

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it was it was a good place to be at that

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point in the mission and you know we had

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a few hiccups and glitches that we

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worked through to get to that point and

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you know it for the most part went off

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without a hitch

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in terms of

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uh events that are scheduled after a

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landing i just i just plan to spend some

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time with the people that we

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helped plan and prepare this mission

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with and that includes the crew of

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sts-132

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some friends out at the kennedy space

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center and then friends here at the

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johnson space center just spend time

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with them and just kind of enjoy the

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moment

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thank you

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all right bill harwood next

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oh yeah guys thanks uh mike just want to

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double check the consumables you guys

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can stay up until friday so i mean

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saturday so fridays pick them and

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saturday is your absolute last day is

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that right as it stands today

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yeah bill you're going to ask me to do

518
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math in public here so wednesday morning

519
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is end of mission

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plus one is thursday plus two is friday

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so yes

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saturday would be our systems day and uh

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friday would be our pick em day

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thanks and one more for me and it's just

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to follow up on this this i guess the

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atlantis theme

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um what do you think personally about it

528
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i mean what's your sense of the vehicle

529
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i know engineers don't anthropomorphize

530
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all that much but

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do you have any personal thoughts about

532
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seeing this thing wrap up its final

533
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mission thanks

534
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um my personal thoughts are that

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the shuttle has been a remarkable

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vehicle in that it uh has served and is

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a

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by delivering components to the

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international space station either the

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rossvet module or the columbus module or

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others

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and then also through

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various depart department of defense uh

544
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mission tasks that we've completed um

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atlantis

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has been a peacekeeper and uh that's

547
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that's been a great thing to see and to

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be a part of and uh

549
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that's just my thought on on atlantis

550
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and her history the shuttle program

551
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history is a little more complex uh it's

552
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had a lot of triumph and tragedy

553
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associated with it and uh we'll see how

554
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the history books uh leave the shuttle

555
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program but it's something that i'm

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proud to be a part of and i've spent the

557
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last 16 going on 17 years of my life

558
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doing

559
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whether whether we get additional

560
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flights out there or not you know

561
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remains to be seen but

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i'm i'm just glad to be at this point in

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okay i guess that's it on the phone

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bridge any questions back here

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if not we'll close quick programming

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note don't go far because coming up at

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11 a.m central time noon eastern time is

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our final mission management team

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briefing that'll be with leroy kane the

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deputy shuttle program manager and

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chairman of the mmt the mmt meets uh

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very shortly to discuss landing strategy

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atlantis astronauts will begin their

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sleep period this afternoon at 3 20 p.m

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central time paving the way for the

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airing of our flight day highlights

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beginning at 4 pm central time those

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highlights on nasa tv to be replayed

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every hour on the hour throughout the

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crew sleep period and wake up for the

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crew late tonight at 11 20 p.m central

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time to begin flight day 12 and all of

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the orbiter preparations for atlantis

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scheduled homecoming to the kennedy

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space center on wednesday you can follow

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all the activities of both the shuttle

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and station crews on our website at

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with that we'll go back to mission